Category: HLG
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They order these things better: a review of #hlg2012
@Librarianpocket posted on twitter asking people to give their take home messages from the 2012 Health Libraries Group conference in Glasgow. I didn’t respond at the time, thinking the task too hard. I suppose, paraphrasing Sterne, I might say, ‘they order these matters better in Scotland’, for I and other delegates from the wrong side…
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Doping in sport: the evidence for performance enhancement at the Olympics
Will the London Olympics be the cleanest yet? The audience at the Bishop-Lefanu lecture for 2012 were sceptical, 59% disagreeing with the proposition. The lecture, given every two years, commemorates W J Bishop, librarian at the Wellcome, founder of the Medical Section of the Library Association, the ancestor of HLG, and William LeFanu, Librarian of…
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Health Information and Libraries Journal’s Silver Jubilee
Health Information and Libraries Journal, or HILJ, pronounced by the irreverent to rhyme with bilge, is 25 years old. The journal has marked its birthday with a splendid celebratory issue, guest-edited by Andrew Booth, or Andrew Boot, as CILIP’s Library and Information Gazette dubs him. As well as reflections by Andrew, Penny Bonnett, Assistant Editor…
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Making Web 2.0 work for you and your library: further thoughts
I was sorry to miss, thanks to the train timetable, Mark Clowes’ overview of web 2.0 technologies and Bernice Baker’s presentation on blended learning. But I was there in time for an announcement by Ian Baird from Teeside University of the long overdue merger of the University Medical School Librarians Group and the University Health…
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Online: Libqual+
I went to Online at Olympia yesterday. The exhibition itself was the usual scrum, but there is nothing like wearing a badge saying Tom Roper, Unemployed, for protecting oneself against people trying to sell you things. Much more interesting than the exhibition was the Health Libraries Group event, a presentation by Lucy McCaskie of Gloucestershire…
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HLG: Tuesday afternoon
Tuesday afternoon opened with a plenary at which Peter Morgan gave a very clear summary of open access and institutional repositories. Peter runs Cambridge’s DSpace repository when he’s not being a medical librarian. He made some interesting points about the differences between computing and library approaches to repositories, noting that librarians who run repositories think…
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HLG: Tuesday morning
The morning opened with another keynote speech, this time by Bernard Barrett of the Irish Health Sciences Libraries Group, who gave his confessions of an information scientist. Bernard spoke about his experiences working outside a library, in mental health in Ireland. , developing guidelines and policies, identifying areas where there might be a lack of…
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HLG: Monday
Today, the morning of the first day of the HLG conference in Eastbourne, we heard a keynote speech by Ian Snowley, CILIP’s President-elect. Ian’s presentation, entitled I am a medical librarian and including a clip fromMLA’s video of the same name, discussion stressed how professions and professional values are changing, citing a recent Demos report…
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Health Libraries Group in Eastbourne
There’s less than a week to go till the Health Libraries Group comes to Eastbourne for its 2006 conference. All police leave has been cancelled. This venue is comme il faut; conferences are always better by the seaside, with its atmosphere of hedonism and abandon. Tomorrow I go on a reconnaissance mission, and may bring…
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HLG Chair
Today in Belfast I stood down as chair of the Health Libraries Group. Alan Fricker takes over from me and will bring a lot more to the post than I ever did. I still have some duties to discharge at the annual conference in Eastbourne. It was liberating to be able to sit through most…